Musical Birthdays for January

Hello!  It is a cold rainy day here in NE, Ohio.  So even to take pictures of things is kinda difficult for me.  I would much rather have snow or just plain sun, not rain and mud.  Yuck!  Anyways, this card, I actually made two of.  One was made for my niece, who is in college studying music.  She has a beautiful soprano voice and she plays the piano beautifully, too.  She is a very talented young lady!  So naturally I wanted to do something for her that had to do with music.

Also, I made another one almost exactly the same for my wonderful pastor's wife who is our pianist and worship leader.  She is an amazing encouragement to me and a great Godly example to us all.  We are so blessed to have her in our church. 

I used:
DCWV The Performance Stack
White, Red and black Cardstock
Black glittered ribbon from Micheal's
EKSuccess butterfly layering punch (this is such a cool punch)
Birthday Sentiment stamp from Hobby Lobby
Red I-rock gems
I am entering this in:
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge -Anything Goes
Little Scrap Pieces Challenge - Anything Goes

Well thank you so much for stopping by 

and I hope you have fabulous day!

 

2012 Christmas Bulletin Boards

Okay, I know it is well past Christmas but I just am now getting around to taking the pictures and sharing them with you all.  Some are re-purposed reused parts from other boards...but that is what it is all about right?  Most cuts are done with the Cricut!

 With this simple bulletin board, I used my Cricut for the tag and I also used the 

Cricut Markers to write part of the verse, Romans 6:23.  

 This one is a mixture of lots of different cuts from my past bulletin boards, so I am not sure where they all came from.  Sorry!  I love that snowman though!

Okay, this one I do know that the manger scene came from the new December 25th Cricut Cartridge and the smaller stars are from Stand and Salute Cricut Cartridge.  Actually you can't see it but all the stars were covered in white glitter.  They were so sparkly and pretty but they just didn't show up on here...bummer!  

Well I hope you enjoyed seeing these and thank you for stopping in. 

 Have a wonderful day filled with many blessings! 

Rectangle Birthday!

Hello!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a great time celebrating the beginning of a new year.  We had a long Christmas.  We started ours out on the Friday before Christmas, with having my parents here for dinner and read the Christmas story from the Bible, and exchanged our gifts to each other,(because they were going to be at my sister's house for Christmas).  So that saved us all from hauling those gifts from home to PA. to back home.  Then we had Christmas Eve at our Aunt and Uncle's home and opened gifts from them and our Grandma.  Then we got up early Christmas morning read the Christmas story, and opened our gifts to each other here out our home, Next we got ready and headed to my in-laws to eat breakfast  and read the Christmas Story and opened gifts from them and my SIL's and their families.  Then we ate lunch and went and visited with Grandma for a little bit!  After all that on Christmas day, we came home packed our suitcases and loaded up the van and went to bed.  So on Wednesday, very early we got up and headed down the road to my sister's home in PA, trying to stay ahead of the "blizzard" that Ohio got.  Thank goodness, we got there just as it began snowing really hard.  So God really watched out for us.  Well, we stayed with them for about two days, had Christmas dinner, and read the Christmas story in their barn, with the horse munching in our ears and the dog making whimpering noises and chickens making some noises,  just to reflect on some of the things that our baby Jesus may have heard when he was born.  Then we opened gifts to each other.  The next day we came home to at least 10"-12" of snow!  We spent the next few days, just laying around resting up from the hectic-ness of Christmas and enjoyed each other.  All this to say, that I got really behind on Birthday cards for people in our families whose birthdays landed right after Christmas and New Year's....

So here is the first of a few that I am behind on!  I really am going to try to stay ahead on card making and maybe have a few extra on hand just in case!  Oh well, at least they are getting a card instead of nothing!  It is the thought that counts right?  I bet you all never get behind on your card making for people, right?   Anyways, I like how it turned out, simple and masculine.  And the paper has just enough shimmer for me to not need to add any.  Anyways, here it is!

I used:
DCWV The Natural Stack
Spellbinders Rectangles
Cuttlebug Clockworks embossing folder
Birthday Sentiment from Hobby Lobby

Thank you so much for stopping in and

may you have a New Year filled with many blessings!

More Christmas Cards

Hello!  I am soooo behind on everything this year including my Christmas cards!  I still have my ton of baking to do by Friday and I just have no motivation at all.  I am in a slump and just can't seem to get out of it!  Well anyways, some people will just be getting their cards very late this year!  As you can tell, I have been kinda busy with them.  Some I made a while ago and am just getting around to posting them for all to see.  I am trying to make cards that are easy to mass produce but somehow I end up making more work fun for my self.  The only problem is that I just don't have the time to get all fancy.  I have a buch of presents to wrap and a few more gifts to buy and of course then there is the baking.

 

I used: 

My Minds Eye, O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock

Landscape Stamp from Hobby Lobby

Sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up!

Brown and white bakers twine

Stickles

Glittered snow paint

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I used:
The Paper Studio Classic Christmas cardstock for the "Ornament"
Gold/Silver/White and black cardstock for the background layers and card
Martha Stewart Coarse glitter
Gold/Silver cord
Sentiment stamp fromJustRite

 

 
 
 
 
I used:
My Minds Eye O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock for the background and layers
Sentiment stamp from Michael's
Gold Stickles
Brown and white bakers twine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
I used: 
My Mind's Eye, O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock
Spellbinders 20120 Heirloom Ornament die
JustRite Stamps
Ribbon from my stash
Green stickles
 

Well thanks for stopping in and

I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Ice Cream Sandwich Gift Card Box

Well, my Dad celebrated his birthday on the 1st and I am just getting around to sharing his card/box.  This is truly an original from me.  I saw a  sandwich cookie box that caused my inspiration to start working.  The cookie box was round, and I wanted to make mine rectangular like a ice cream sandwich.  Why the ice cream sandwich?  Well, my dad is always eating something like this.  If it isn't an ice cream sandwich, it's a ice cream bar...So naturally when I saw the cookie I got the idea.  I even went so far as wrapping it up in white paper for him like an ice cream sandwhich is.  He didn't get that part of it until we made him stop and think about that and then he laughed.  He liked his box but he really liked the contents. It was the perfect size to have a gift card with its base still attached to it, and folded in half.  I just could not figure out how to embellish this for a guy without taking away from it being a ice cream sandwich.  So the more simple the better wit the just the bakers twine and then a tag.  This was one of my last cuts I made on my gypsy before it broke, sooo at this time I don't even know which Cartridge I used to make the cuts for the scolloped top and bottom.  So sorry about that.  Hopefully, I can get a new one and be up and running again, very soon!

I used:
Cricut Cartridge ?? for the retangelar scolloped top and bottom
CuttleBug embossing folder Polka Dots turned with the popped up dots inward.
Brown and White bakers twine
DCWV The Glitzy Glitter Stack for the tag
Sentiment stamp purchased from Hobby Lobby

Side view!

    Top view!

 

Thank you so much for taking a look at what I have been doing these last few weeks! 

 Have a great day!

Wintery Landscape

     Hello again, I hope you all are doing great and all prepared for Christmas...Right?  Not me, I am not even close to ready.  I don't even have anything for my hubby and my kids all know what they are getting so far.  That is no fun, when they don't have a surprise under the tree.  So I need to work harder on all of this! 
     Well, my wonderful FIL had his birthday yesterday, so here is his card.  I am very happy at how this turned out.  Sometimes, when I make a card, I have a picture in my head and then when I go to create it, I just can't seem to get it to look like that. I am sure none of you have that problem at all!  I have that problem a lot, but fortunately, not this time!  I just hope he liked it.  This card could easily be use as a Christmas card just by changing the background papers and the sentiment.  Hmmmm, I just may do that!  LOL

I used:
Landscape stamp from Michael's
DCWV The Christmas Combo stack
Stickles
Colored Pencils
Aleene's Glitter Snow
Brown/White Bakers Twine
Yellow stamp pad for the background
Blue stamp pad for the background

A close up view of the snow scene!

Well, thank you so much for stopping in, and I hope you have fantastic kind of day!

A Ladies 70th Birthday

Hello!  My Christmas cards have been delayed due to birthdays and Christmas tree and decorating for the Christmas season.  I am trying to stick to priorities and doing what needs to be done first.  With that said, here is my Mom's 70th birthday gift/card from us (I will be putting gifts inside each of these items). My mom has a small collection of "glass" shoes and purses, so that is why I chose to do this for her. I found the shoe pattern Here, and printed it starting with just making a template just to see how hard it would be to put it together.  As you can tell, it is not to hard to do at all.  Then I cut out the purse with my Cricut Expression.  The the fun part was actually choosing the paper and then embellishing it.  It is not perfect but, I am very pleased at how well it turned out. I wanted it to look vintage and I think I achieved that.  I posted on Facebook to all of her friends that it was her 70th Birthday and that I would love it they all sent her a card.  As of now, she has over 10 different birthday cards from friends and family, and I am expecting more for her.  Also, her church had a cake for her last night so tonight I get to spoil her with dinner and her gifts and a cake.  I hope she likes these, and never gets tired of my creations for her.

I used:
K&Company Life's Journey Designer Paper
Teal blue cardstock from my stash
Tags, Bags, Boxes & More Cricut Cartridge for the purse
Cricut Craft Room Basics for the scalloped circle cut on the back of the purse
All the ribbon and lace are from my stash
The paper Roses are from Michael's
The pearl strands are from Michael's
Rhinestones are from Michael's

The Purse and the Shoe together!

 

 The Shoe!

 The Purse Front

 The Purse Back

 

Well, I hope you have a day filled with many blessings 

and thank you so much for stopping in.

Deer Scene Birthday

Hello, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving this past week and have recovered from it all.  Ours was a very busy day as usual.  We travel about an hour away from home and spend lunch with my mom's family and share lunch with them and then we exchange our crafts and such.  That all ends much to quickly for me.  Holidays are not really a time to visit and such.  It is more of a time to say "Hello" and then move on to the next person or next stop.  I am not complaining, I am thankful that I have family to spend my holidays with and such, I just wish we had a little bit more time.  After we are done there we make the 1 hour trek back and stop in and my in-laws and spend the evening with them eating leftovers from their Thanksgiving lunch.  MMMM!  Leftovers are sometimes better than the original!  Anyways, I want to share with you a birthday card I made very quickly on Thanksgiving morning, for my cousin.  He love hunting and where he lives is beautiful country.  So naturally I had to use this stamp for him.  It was a fairly simple card to make.  I just hope he liked it.

I used:
Paper is from my old stash of paper from Wal-Mart
Stamps are from Hobby Lobby
Ribbon from my stash
Lots of inking on the image with pink, two shades of yellow, light green

Well thank you so much for stopping in 

and I hope you have a great day!

The Reveal of my Thanksgiving/Christmas Craft!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Ok the long awaited day has arrived!   Here is my Thanksgiving/Christmas Craft that I promised to share today with you all.  I can't to share it with my family today!  First, I got my inspiration to make these from searching the web to find something unique yet beautiful.  Well this is where I got the idea from HERE, but I changed it up a bit to what I had. It cost me less money then what it would have cost. Had I followed every detail that she has I would have been seriously broke.  Remember I had to make 30 of these.  So I found ways to "cut corners", such as by not using gems all the way around the edge, instead I used "Stickles"...  So with many hours and loads of details and steps that is what I came up with.

I used:
Gloss Paper from Hobby Lobby
JustRite Stamp set:  Grandma's Doilies
Spellbinders Parisian Motifs Die for the bottom layer
The rest of the cuts are done with the Cricut using the Plantin SchoolBook and Sentimentals Cartridges
Tim Holtz Distress ink:  Victorian Velvet, Broken China, Tea Dye.
Versa Mark ink for embossing
Gold/Silver embossing powder
Tassles are handmade some of them are made with "cording" and others are made with "Punch Art" Thread that I found at a yard sale this summer
Stickles for the "faux rhinestones" around the edge of most of them
Some I did use pearls around the edge
Buttons/brads...for the center of the ornament
Martha Stewart Crystal Coarse Glitter
Foam Tape/Zig Glue pens

This one has pearls on the edge and in the center.

 

 

Silver embossing

 

I am fairly pleased at how well these turned out.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving today with your family and friends!

Christmas Snowflake

I have my new computer now, and I am still trying to figure out all the new things on it.  So bare with me as I do that.  So here is another Christmas card I made.  I was trying out my new Cricut Cartridge and the snowflake and the glittered back ground are all from the December 25th Cartridge.  I love how it turned out!  So I knew I had to use it for a card and this is what I came up with!  Also, this card is the first card that I have sent out in the "snail mail" for the Christmas season.  I know, I know, you say why so early?  Well, this one is on its way to my sister down south and it carried something very important...family pictures!  I couldn't wait to get them out to her.  We have not seen her in about 2 years and we miss her so much.  So I thought that I would get them out to her before Thanksgiving when everyone else will receive theirs.  I know she will be thrilled to receive them!

I used:
Theresa Collins December 25th Cricut Cartridge
DCWV Glittered Card stock
DCWV The Homemade Christmas Stack for the background paper
DCWV The Glitzy Glitter Stack neutrals for the snowflake
Spellbinders Parisian Motifs Shapeabilities die for the background cut
Green Satin Ribbon from Hobby Lobby
JustRite Deck the Halls Stamp for the Sentiment

Thanks so much for stopping in and I hope you

 have wonderful day!